Development of a measurement method of sea-ice thickness by acoustic Doppler current profiler

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Sea-ice thickness is generally measured by specific ice-profiling sonar (IPS). We carried out mooring observations off the northern Alaska to develop a method of sea-ice thickness measurement by widely-used oceanographic instrument, acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP). We have successfully obtained valid data by a pair of an IPS and an ADCP at total of four locations over three-year period and derived sea-ice draft from raw IPS data.Using sea-ice and oceanic data obtained by our mooring observations, we have investigated break-up of coastal landfast sea ice, production of supercooled water and frazil ice within a coastal polynya, and compared our ice-thickness data by IPS with those by airborne electromagnetic sensor and ice-drift data by ADCP with those by coastal radar.